Euro 2016

Yes, yes, I could've put it in the Football thread, but fark it. This starts on June 10. Should be grouse.

Group A

Albania
France
Romania
Switzerland

Group B

England
Russia
Slovakia
Wales

Group C

Germany
Northern Ireland
Poland
Ukraine

Group D

Croatia
Czech Republic
Spain
Turkey

Group E

Belium
Italy
Republic of Ireland
Sweden

Group F

Austria
Hungary
Iceland
Portugal

The current FIFA rankings have the following teams as faves (in order):

Belgium
Germany
Spain
Portugal
England
Austria
Turkey
Switzerland
Italy

Unusual not to see Netherlands in the hunt for a Euro title.

Go #DamiArmy

She wuz robbed.

Ukraine ova spilt milk?

Starts in less than a week.

Isn't Paris underwater at the moment?

Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland might like the conditions.

skully wrote:

The current FIFA rankings have the following teams as faves (in order):

Belgium
Germany
Spain
Portugal
England
Austria
Turkey
Switzerland
Italy

Unusual not to see Netherlands in the hunt for a Euro title.

Maybe I am missing something but how is Belgium ranked above the World Cup champions?

Where is France?

Latest rankings (European sides only):

Belgium
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Austria
England
Italy
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Turkey

Holland did not qualify for Euro this year, and is the highest FIFA ranked side (14) not to make it. Austria, Italy and France moved up in most recent update, and Turkey dropped down significantly. Albania is the lowest FIFA ranked team (42) to make Euro this year.

Really hope there's no incidents, you'd hope that after the two recent attacks that security will be so tight that it will be next to impossible but then you would have hoped that security would have been stepped up after the first attacks in France.

Hope the weather improves and the football is great. But I echo vilky's thoughts re: security.

Has the rain in Spain (or norf of there) stopped falling mainly on the plain?

Starts tomoz night.

How shit is the new format, BTW. Almost hockey levels crapulence.

I've only now just started paying attention to this.

HTF did Albania qualify and the Kloggies not?

Indeed.

Sorry to say it, but I can't help thinking there's going to be a hideous terrorist attack at some stage during this.

Indeed.

Cracking goal by Payet to win it for Les Bleu.

Some of our 'supporters' are kicking off I see:

Dear French Police,

Kindly kick the shit out of them and then send them home.

Yours truly

An embarrassed Rosbif

You just shake your head at football thugs. What do they get out of being arseholes?

Don't know what it's like over there, but there seems to be a lot of indifference to this. Just the format?

I'm glad that the national anthems are being respected

Absolutely mugged. And some Russians starting shit inside the stadium too (we weren't angels outside I know).

Shame Engulund couldn't hold on for the win. Nasty stuff after the bell. Apparently* it's been a running battle between the two groups of supporters for the past week.